Karlin Lillington

Step intended to combat child sexual abuse online has been widely condemned as ineffective and in breach of fundamental rights

When the US president Bill Clinton used Baltimore Technologies ‘strong encryption’ service, it opened the way to much wider use of the technology

Finland’s Eurovision Song Contest entry Windows95man′s hard drive issues entertain

Passkeys are more secure but tech firms are doing little to encourage us to use them

Tech giant firing staff for political protest is among the biggest lobbyists of government and not averse to very ‘political’ business

US intelligence agencies raise flags over WuXi and its links with Chinese government and national security

Filterworld by Kyle Chayka; Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia

Plans for air taxis are either impractical or likely to be prohibitively expensive for all but the very rich, or both

Donald Trump’s social media network is trading at valuations that make some of the most successful listed businesses in history look pedestrian

Silicon Valley has not changed that much since Mike Lynch was in his pomp

Watered down legislation still puts Europe ahead on regulating AI but enforcement could be held back by technological gaps

While other firms have been caught in the bloc’s regulatory crosshairs, the iPhone maker had broadly escaped until now

Ireland has an opportunity to be the Digital Services Act’s model regulator. But some chances have already been squandered

Though generally targeting enthusiasts on personal laptops, the operating system dominates the enterprise market

We need to prevent our online future from concentrating further into the hands of a few billionaires and their mega-companies

Current technology won’t accomplish Coimisiún na Meán’s ‘gold standard’ proposals to verify users accessing inappropriate internet content

Karlin Lillington: The strange hybrid Coimisiún na Meán faces great challenges and one mooted porn registry idea is mega-scale bonkers

Apple’s Mac has been around since 1984, and is still getting better

My generation didn’t grow up with games involving microchips, a likely factor. And I was like a lot of girls and women in disliking the majority of titles

EU and other regulators must realise that fines by themselves are no deterrent to X and other firms

Tech advances are nearing a crisis point, with big implications for how we live our day-to-day lives

Dare to use a toll road or cross a bridge in a rental car in California or Illinois, and you are on the highway to hell

In the current AI regulatory vacuum, an enormous balance of AI power seems to be tilting towards Microsoft

Karlin Lillington: US expert argues for tighter controls and end lax containment efforts

One whistleblower’s experience of official Ireland does not bode well for protected disclosures generally

Head bowed low in apology, the timeless Silver Swan continues to inspire as that enchanting example of precision engineering, creativity and robotics

Condemning governments on human rights grounds while running event filled with companies that enable serious abuses smacks of hypocrisy

The US Justice Department’s antitrust trial against Google will, whatever the outcome, influence the future of technology in ways we cannot yet imagine

Karlin Lillington: Data breach at 23andMe highlights need for regulation as genetic background and other information hacked and offered for sale

Using an eSim is straightforward overseas, it should be the same in Ireland

State controversially funded private sector initiative to leverage DNA samples from Irish people for profit

Many of its operational cogs and wheels run behind the scenes, meaning you probably didn’t notice anything

Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland has, in some cases, recovered more than 85% of destroyed archive collections but gaps remain

Media need to focus on what’s happening at Twitter and Meta, not a ludicrous fight that was never likely to happen

Ireland will be a key player in regulation but setting rules requires unsettling levels of guess-making about how AI technologies might affect us

The fediverse has been trumpeted as a way to break the dominance of the social networking giants. Can it succeed?

‘Those rump members left on Musk’s comic book X-world should probably start thinking about alternatives'

Apple products were renowned for being user-friendly, but that's no longer the case

That so many people are so willing to opt for more Meta says much about how ghastly Twitter has become